Release note: Amendment to SF Bug 1511 fix - removal of blanked DEFFILE keyword from e32abiv2ani.flm
This is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP that uses
one or more files to emulate physical disks.
Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Bo Brantén.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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Windows and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of
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Please send comments, corrections and contributions to bosse@acc.umu.se
The most recent version of this program is available from:
http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/
Revision history:
14. 2006-01-05
Updated impersonation so that use of image files stored on network
drives work on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and
Windows Server 2003 SP1.
13. 2004-06-09
Small fix in file size handling.
12. 2004-05-27
Possible fix for memory leak.
11. 2002-11-30
Added ioctl to query information about mounted disk image files by
request from developer of GUI.
10. 2002-11-24
Added a check so that FileDisk doesn't use compressed or encrypted
images. For an explanation why this doesn't work see comment in the
source code.
9. 2002-08-26
Corrected the share access for read-only FileDisk images.
8. 2002-08-11
Updated the control application to support UNC paths.
Changed the handling of CD-ROM device objects to avoid some problems on
Windows XP.
Corrected the handling of file sizes so that FileDisk images can be
sparse files.
7. 2002-02-28
Added support for CD-images.
6. 2002-01-21
Added support for impersonation so that FileDisk images can be stored
on network drives.
5. 2002-01-18
Updated for Windows XP by Robert A. Rose.
4. 2001-07-08
Formating to FAT on Windows 2000 now works.
3. 2001-05-14
Corrected the error messages from the usermode control application.
2. 2000-03-15
Added handling of IOCTL_DISK_CHECK_VERIFY to make the driver work on
Windows 2000 (tested on beta 3, build 2031). Formating to FAT still
doesn't work but formating to NTFS does.
1. 1999-06-09
Initial release.